@inproceedings{475e95a1cd3f41b0849745aad3a4c22c,
title = "Industrial relocation and CO2 emission intensity: focus on the potential cross-country shift from China to India and SE Asia",
abstract = "The potential relocation of various industrial sectors from China to India and countries of the SE Asian region presents low cost opportunities for manufacturers, but also risks rising energy demand and CO2 emissions. A cross-country shift of industrial output would present challenges for controlling emissions since India and SE Asian countries present higher industrial emissions intensity than China. We find that although there is a convergence in emissions intensity in the Machinery manufacturing and Paper and Pulp industries, there are significant variations in all other industrial sectors. Indian emissions are double that of China in the Iron and Steel and Textile and Leather industries and almost triple in the cement industry; Indonesian emissions are almost double those of China in the Non-Metallic Minerals and Textile and Leather industries and 50% higher in the Chemical and Petrochemical industry. We demonstrate that the expected higher emissions are driven by both a higher fuel mix carbon intensity in the new countries and a higher energy intensity in their industrial activities. While industrial relocation could benefit certain countries financially, it would impose considerable threats to their energy supply security and capacity to comply with their Paris Agreement commitments.",
keywords = "India, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Industrial Emissions, Emissions intensity, Coal, CO2 emissions",
author = "Dimitrios Pappas and Chalvatzis, {Konstantinos J.} and Dabo Guan and Xin Li",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.414",
language = "English",
series = "Energy Procedia",
publisher = "Elsevier",
pages = "2898--2904",
editor = "J. Yan and Jianzhong Wu and H. Li",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2017",
note = "9th International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2017 ; Conference date: 21-08-2017 Through 24-08-2017",
}